Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-01-31
WHAT INGALLS, WANTS.
He Proposes Annexation of Canada ant
the Central American States.

He Proposes Annexation of Canada anu
the Central American States.
WASHINGTON, January 29.-Mr. W. T.
Curtis, OF the Chicago NctrS, had IN inter
view with Senator Ingalls, this afternoon,
of which the following is an extract:
Senator Ingalls, declared himself, with
his characteristic emphasis, in favor ofthe
annexation Of Canada, and not only Cana
da, but the entire Central American States.
He coined = word to express his doctrine,
and it was a Continental Republic The
updnimity of the assault upon him by the
English aud Canadian papers since ms
speech on the Fisheries resolution would
seem to indicate that the blows ne
struck were felt and were a good
deal more than a disturbance
of the air. That he struck a popular chord
in the country is shown by the deluge oil
letters that set in upon him the day after
his speech was delivered and still continue
with increasing numbers. He has received
a good manv from Canada, rs well rs from
citizens of the United States, and they are
all anonymous, vituperative, vindictive
and insolent to the last degree. The let
tiers received from his country have come
from every State that could send a mail
so far as Washington since the debate, and
are all congratulatOry, enthusiastic and
grateful. | asked the Senator to show he
some of the letters, and pointing to great
IL -, H., la11r Ln Cai1 nrau af Eharfu IN
help myself, and after some urging per
mitted me to make copies of a few samples
without giving the names.
Il asked him if he had read the attacks
upon himself in the English and Canadian
papers. My attention has been called TO
them he replied. The tone OF the editO-
rails in the leading London journals is q
further illustration of the temper of Eng
land and the English people toward Amer
lea and our institutions. They attempted
to divert the issue from the gravity of the
accusation to the insigniticaDce of the nc
cuSer. The real question is not whether
Mr.. Ingalls, is Obsure, but whether his
allegations are true or false. No super
cillious illusions to mt or my State can
distract attention from the real princi-
pies in controversy. We have been so
submissive, so fOrbearing in the past, that
the world is coming to believe us a nation
of towards. There has been such n trans
fusion of the dry rot of anglOmania into
our social system; such an adoption of the
single eye-glaSs and the 'aw,' the jargOn
and the raiment of ~England-sO much flap
doodle and Observation-Disclosures and
nonsense about kindred blood, and the
land of Shakespeare and Milton, that there
has been Il temporary alteration of the in
tellect and a suspension OF Seli-TeSpect on
the part of the American people, who for
get that England is the only enemy we
have TN the face Of the earth.
80 1t is time that the American people
awoke to the fact Mr.. Ingalls, continued
that the craftsmanship of the nineteenth
century requires the unificatiOn of this
continent under one homogeneous govern
ment from the frozen sea to the inter
canal, wherever it may he built.
That canal should be our southern bound
airy. NV dream, and believe the settled
conviction of the American people, Is a
continental republic. That is the manifest
destiny; that is the inevitable tendency
of the political forces of the American
1t is their only safety, and in
stead of wasting our power in petty in
with savages for Il naval station in
the Pacific sea, 4 wiser and more command
ing uOlicy would he to establish relations
of international friendship with our Cana
dian nei9hbOrS on the North and our Span
ish n~eighbOrs on the South, and not per.
NIT the Vaccinations of Great Britain TO
disturbances that will defer such
IN alliance or render 1t impossible"
81 asked Senator Ingalls, to give me his
on the Continental Republic a little
more in detail, hut he said he intended to
something on this subject in the Senate
Don and did not want to spoil his speech"